title: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in healthcare: a literature review.
abstract: Creating and maintaining a safe and high-quality health care environment is of great importance for global community. New technologies and their applications can help us achieve this goal. Radio-Frequency Identification (RIFD) technology is considered one of those technologies and even today there are some interesting deployments in the health industry. As a result, this work aims to present the basic idea behind RFID solutions, problems that can be addressed with the adoption of RFID and the benefits of relative applications.
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing.
authors.forename: Aikaterini
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kolokathi
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rallis
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods*; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device / Q000379:methods*